The move, which she says subjects her to federal rules, is meant to answer concerns over the ethics implications of her earlier unofficial role in her father’s administration. The implications for her business are not immediately clear.

Ms. Trump’s title will be special assistant to the president. Her husband, Jared Kushner, has the title of senior adviser.

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5. “An outrageous abuse of power.”

That was the judge who sentenced two figures in the “Bridgegate” case, when lanes to the George Washington Bridge were closed to jam traffic in a New Jersey town whose mayor had refused to endorse Gov. Chris Christie for re-election.

Bridget Anne Kelly, a former Christie aide, above, is to serve 18 months, and Bill Baroni, a former Christie ally at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is to serve two years.

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6. The Fox News host Bill O’Reilly apologized to Representative Maxine Waters of California. He had called her hair “a James Brown wig.”

But right after the mea culpa, he went on the attack, accusing her of demagogy for criticizing Mr. Trump. Ms. Waters declined to spar.

“I’m not going to be put down, I’m not going to go anywhere,” she said on MSNBC. “I’m going to stay on the issues.”

They may come in handy, given Congress’s decision to dismantle Obama-era rules that, had they been allowed to go into effect this year, would have required internet providers to get permission before collecting and selling customers’ online information, including browsing activities.

But our tech writer points out that you didn’t have much online privacy to begin with.

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8. “It was never my intention to go against the president of the United States,” said Mohamed Iye, a Somali-born American citizen whose wife and daughters were stranded abroad when the Trump administration’s travel ban took effect.

“I was just following the law and doing everything the way it’s in the books. And it came to this.”